Walking on Water – Once in a Lifetime

Christo’s Extraordinary and Ephemeral “Floating Piers”

It’s an incredible undertaking, a modular floating dock system covered with gleaming golden fabric bobbing gently on the water. It took 220,000 cubes + 220,000 pins + 200 anchors + 37,000 meters of rope and 70,000 square 2015 meters of felt under 100,000 layers of gold fabric to create the nearly two-mile long yellow ribbon walkway leading from Sulzano on the shore of Italy’s Lake Iseo to Monte Iseo Island and on to wrap around Isola di San Paolo. Every day thousands of people arrive by bus, car, train, and read more >>>